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Direct linkSeyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini; Mahtab Janfada; Leila Iranmanesh – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
Language tests, including international high-stakes English proficiency tests widely used around the world, are to be viewed as ideological constructs connected with power relations and center-periphery demarcations at different social levels. In this paper, we examine the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) as an instance of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Takunori Terasawa; So Sudo; Takeshi Kajigaya; Ryosuke Aoyama; Ryuko Kubota – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper examines recent reforms in English-language testing in Japan using a policy distraction framework. We identify the term 'washback (effect)' and other related discourses as major distractors and investigate how 'washback' discourses have functioned as political slogans or catchphrases in policy deliberation processes and how they have…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
